Frances Burney
Born
in Lynn Regis, The United Kingdom
June 13, 1752
Died
January 06, 1840
Genre
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Evelina
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390 editions
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published
1778
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Cecilia
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125 editions
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published
1782
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Camilla
by
86 editions
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published
1796
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The Wanderer: or, Female Difficulties
52 editions
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published
1814
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Journals and Letters
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6 editions
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published
1841
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The Complete Novels of Fanny Burney (Annotated)
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3 editions
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published
1995
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The Witlings and the Woman-Hater
by
6 editions
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published
1779
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Diary Of Fanny Burney
3 editions
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published
1840
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Cecilia: Or Memoirs Of An Heiress, Volume 1
38 editions
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published
1782
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Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3
30 editions
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published
1782
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“Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom discover, till too late, how I ought to act.”
― Evelina
― Evelina
“Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.”
― Evelina
― Evelina
“She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both time and encouragement to show themselves.”
― Evelina
― Evelina
Polls
February 2018 Old School Poll
Macbeth by William Shakespeare 1606, 249 pages
Silas Marner by George Eliot 1861, 262 pages
Shirley by Charlotte Brontë 1849, 624 pages
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle 1883, 400 pages
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs 1861, 176 pages
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy 1886, 445 pages
Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain 1893, 160 pages
Evelina by Fanny Burney 1778, 455 pages
The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson 1888, 242 pages
Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert 1869, 460 pages
The Masterpiece by Émile Zola 1886, 464 pages
Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy 1899, 562 pages
Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell 1863, 484 pages
The Morgesons by Elizabeth Stoddard 1862, 304 pages
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